it was awful. >> rodney berryman was convicted of first-degree murder. now sits on death row in san quentin prison. >> the various items of forensic evidence essentially created a web that mr. berryman became ensnared in. forensic evidence was so strong that the jury convicted very quickly, and there really was just no way to explain away all the different forensic evidence. >> the amount of evidence and the quality of that evidence, i think that's what made it easy for the jury to come to the conclusion that mr. berryman was guilty and deserved the highest penalty. >> if it wasn't for the crime lab on the other side taking what we found during that almost 24-hour period where we were running to find this guy, i don't know that we would have been successful in the prosecution. >> i still have to say that at that time and at that place, the scientific and forensic work that was done was excellent. and it was correct. >>> the medical examiner ruled the death an accident. but a forensic detective disagreed. the final resolution took three long years and rai